I have to agree with many of the reviewers here. When this book is moving along it is riveting! But, there are definitely slow parts, and it's always I have to agree with many of the reviewers here. When this book is moving along it is riveting! But, there are definitely slow parts, and it's always frustrating when a plot is maintained by people keeping information from each other. But even when it's slow, it's still a page turner - even if it's because you're just trying to get through to more action! Excellent, excellent book - I highly recommend it. ...more
I've really been enjoying the Jacky Faber series, picking up one book right after another, but now, at book 5 in the series, I find an intresting trenI've really been enjoying the Jacky Faber series, picking up one book right after another, but now, at book 5 in the series, I find an intresting trend. At every book, I roll my eyes a little more often, I can predict the trouble Jacky will get into LONG before it actually happens and, I swear, the whole Jacky/Jaimy thing is so drawn out, I'm not even rooting for them to get together anymore. I'm taking a break for a while. I love Jacky as a character, I just think she's starting to repeat the same adventures over and over again.
SPOILER -- asking the opinion of others who have already read the book - SPOILER!!!!
Anyone else think the series totally jumped the shark when Jacky got caught up in a tornado? Gimme a break!...more
**spoiler alert** I wanted to love Middlemarch. I really did. I love British lit and especially this time period. And I loved certain story lines part**spoiler alert** I wanted to love Middlemarch. I really did. I love British lit and especially this time period. And I loved certain story lines part of the time and other story lines at other times. Sometimes I was riveted and couldn't wait to read what would happen next, other times I felt like the same events were being rehashed again and again. Really, how long does it take to establish that Fred is a screw up? That Lydgate is in debt and that Rosemond is a shrew? Yes, yes, we get it - Will really, REALLY loves Dorothea. I preferred some of the more minor storylines -- Mr. Garth and Mr. Farebrother, for example -- because they were not so heavily elaborated. Still, a good story, even if a bit belabored....more
**spoiler alert** I don't usually go for chick lit too much, but this one was pretty good. Though there were the some of the typical chick lit cliches**spoiler alert** I don't usually go for chick lit too much, but this one was pretty good. Though there were the some of the typical chick lit cliches -- excessive clothing description, belabored emotional examination and internal conflict (what do I want? Yes, this is what I want, no its not what I want, why don't I want it?) - none of these are used to the point of annoyance. The precocious kid is even almost believeable as a precocious kid and not a mini adult. I enjoyed the development of Ellie's character and the gradual revealing of her history and disappoinments and how they came to play in the situation she finds herself in in the book.
I especially enjoyed the evolution of her marriage and how things came full circle in the end. Even relationships that seem to be perfect can hit bumps and sometimes simple love just doesn't heal all wounds, but effort and love can. And a happy ending. I like those....more
I liked Mariella quite a bit more at the end than I did at the beginning of this book. I couldn't really figure out what it was that Rosa loved so verI liked Mariella quite a bit more at the end than I did at the beginning of this book. I couldn't really figure out what it was that Rosa loved so very much about her when they met as children, except perhaps that she was so isolated and Mariella just happened to be a person that was there to love. Early in the book she is so proper and obedient and ladylike that, other than her obsession with Henry, she hardly seems to have a personality! But through disappointment, adversity and being forced to learn a little self-sufficiency, she becomes a much more whole and interesting person by the conclusion. It's not easy to grow a backbone, but we all have to sometime!...more
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